OMG!!!!! Jaunita Bynum having VALENTINES conference to Discuss"Domestic Violence"

[Thad]

*** FOLKS< WE"VE SEEN IT ALL ***


she's planning a valentine's day conference to focus on domestic violence.


http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/met..._1115_web.html

[Sandra]

Originally Posted by Thad

*** FOLKS< WE"VE SEEN IT ALL ***


she's planning a valentine's day conference to focus on domestic violence.


http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/met..._1115_web.html

Puke... this is sickening!! She is TRIPPIN"

[Thad]

*** SORRY***

that link didn't work - try this one

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/met..._1115_web.html

[bishoph]

The link isn't working for me.

[Elizabeth]

Originally Posted by Thad

*** SORRY***

that link didn't work - try this one

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/met..._1115_web.html

working!

[Thad]

Evangelist Bynum says her life was in turmoil prior to alleged attack
Bynum talks about tumultuous marriage in December's Essence magazine

By D. AILEEN DODD
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 11/14/07

When she lost her $2.5 million home with the prayer room that gave her a quiet place to soothe her spirit, national evangelist Juanita Bynum says she wept for two days.

Her life was in turmoil. Her marriage was failing. Her estate in a Duluth country club was headed for foreclosure.


Pouya Dianat/AJC
(ENLARGE)
Evangelist Juanita Bynum will grace the cover of January's Essence magazine.

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In a two-part series appearing in the December issue of Essence magazine, Bynum talks frankly about losing her home, living in her church and the tumultuous years that she says led to the alleged attack in the hotel parking lot on Aug. 21 that broke up her marriage to Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III.

The Bynum interview will hit news stands this week. The second part of the interview will be featured as the January cover story.

"Juanita Bynum has been a central figure in the evangelic faith," said Essence Editor-in-Chief, Angela Burt-Murray. "Many people were surprised that she and her husband were having this difficulty."

Burt-Murray said that Bynum's story helps to shed light on an important problem facing black women that few public figures are willing to discuss openly — domestic violence. Black women experience domestic violence at a rate that is 35 percent higher than white women and about 22 percent higher than other races, said Burt-Murray.

The editor said women facing domestic violence will "draw strength" from reading about Bynum, who has accused her husband of beating, choking her and stomping her in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel. Weeks was charged with aggravated assault, terroristic threats and simple battery in connection with the incident.

Bynum told Essence she was reluctant to press charges at first because of the public attention it would cause, but the doctor who treated her bruises said he was obligated to report it.

Bynum has said she lived with earlier instances of abuse in her marriage, but she stayed in the relationship because she thought things could be worked out. "This is a woman who was very much committed to her marriage," said Burt-Murray. "She is not happy it's over."

After the attack, Burt-Murray says Bynum considered therapy, but instead focused her attention on creating a domestic violence ministry. Some fans and former supporters, however, have criticized her for going public about her personal problems and ending her marriage.

Bynum told Essence she is planning a Valentine's Day conference to discuss domestic violence. Meanwhile, her divorce from Weeks is pending in Gwinnett County Superior Court.
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[Thad]

There ya go Bishopn

what are thoughts on this Bishopn ?


how about you Jeanie ?

[Sandra]

Originally Posted by Thad

Evangelist Bynum says her life was in turmoil prior to alleged attack
Bynum talks about tumultuous marriage in December's Essence magazine

By D. AILEEN DODD
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 11/14/07

When she lost her $2.5 million home with the prayer room that gave her a quiet place to soothe her spirit, national evangelist Juanita Bynum says she wept for two days.

Her life was in turmoil. Her marriage was failing. Her estate in a Duluth country club was headed for foreclosure.


Pouya Dianat/AJC
(ENLARGE)
Evangelist Juanita Bynum will grace the cover of January's Essence magazine.

RELATED LINK:
• More Gwinnett news



In a two-part series appearing in the December issue of Essence magazine, Bynum talks frankly about losing her home, living in her church and the tumultuous years that she says led to the alleged attack in the hotel parking lot on Aug. 21 that broke up her marriage to Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III.

The Bynum interview will hit news stands this week. The second part of the interview will be featured as the January cover story.

"Juanita Bynum has been a central figure in the evangelic faith," said Essence Editor-in-Chief, Angela Burt-Murray. "Many people were surprised that she and her husband were having this difficulty."

Burt-Murray said that Bynum's story helps to shed light on an important problem facing black women that few public figures are willing to discuss openly — domestic violence. Black women experience domestic violence at a rate that is 35 percent higher than white women and about 22 percent higher than other races, said Burt-Murray.

The editor said women facing domestic violence will "draw strength" from reading about Bynum, who has accused her husband of beating, choking her and stomping her in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel. Weeks was charged with aggravated assault, terroristic threats and simple battery in connection with the incident.

Bynum told Essence she was reluctant to press charges at first because of the public attention it would cause, but the doctor who treated her bruises said he was obligated to report it.

Bynum has said she lived with earlier instances of abuse in her marriage, but she stayed in the relationship because she thought things could be worked out. "This is a woman who was very much committed to her marriage," said Burt-Murray. "She is not happy it's over."

After the attack, Burt-Murray says Bynum considered therapy, but instead focused her attention on creating a domestic violence ministry. Some fans and former supporters, however, have criticized her for going public about her personal problems and ending her marriage.

Bynum told Essence she is planning a Valentine's Day conference to discuss domestic violence. Meanwhile, her divorce from Weeks is pending in Gwinnett County Superior Court.
More on ajc.com

P&G campaign spotlights black women
P&G Ad Effort Focuses on Black Women
PEACH BUZZ: DJ starts fund for patients
'SNL' alum profits from own advice
Bynum's DVD to hit stores today

Profitess JUANITA BYNUM.... she will have about 70,000 women there.
It blows my mind the pull this woman has.

[MrsMcD]

I don't care to hear anything she has to say.

[revrandy]

Was' Love got wit it??
Was' Love but a second Hand emotionnnnnnnn...
Was' Love got to do wit it....


Heheheh...